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From: dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 16Mhz  why in the world....
Message-ID: <11540177@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 89 04:09:39 GMT
References: <430095@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Probably the reason that we only see 16mghz Mac IIx's 030SE's is because Apple
is Stingy in the speed and performance dept. They don't use faster dma/scsi
chips for disk access, they don't use graphics accelerators or anything other
than a math coprocessor, they don't use a DSP for sound.

I guess all that R&D money went to giving Apple R&D engineers 3 or 4 more video
cards and monitors to hang on their 8 meg machines. Just think! now the R&D 
budget can be spent buying themselves the big 21" monitors.

-David